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Description
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Florida Atlantic
University's Ph.D. in Comparative Studies is an
interdisciplinary program for students interested in an
advanced general education and life as a public
intellectual. While "public intellectual" often connotes a
famous name, public intellectuals also include journalists,
artists and architects, legislators, clergy, museum
curators, environmental planners, and community organizers,
as well as teachers and scholars whose work defines, shapes
and influences public issues. "We propose to try and return
to public life some of its intellectual ballast by
instituting a degree program which is precisely not geared
to the specialized market and which leaves space to think."
Necessarily, this makes our program
interdisciplinary.
We hope our candidates for
the Ph.D. in Comparative Studies will make contributions
either to public life or to the genuine teaching which helps
others find their path in public life. We also hope to
provide a place where those already participating in a
public profession, however small their place in it, will
have a chance to think through and revitalize their
contributions to changing the world. Whether our candidates
are fresh from their first degrees or are already working
outside universities, we hope to create a 'home base' in
which both peer and mentor support can sustain those
navigating their way through the pressures that daunt those
who want to make a difference."
http://www.publicintellectuals.fau.edu/main2.htm
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